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We prove that all classical affine W-algebras W(g,f), where g is a simple Lie algebra and f is its non-zero nilpotent element, admit an integrable hierarchy of bi-Hamiltonian PDEs, except possibly for one nilpotent conjugacy class in G_2,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Alberto De Sole , Mamuka Jibladze , Victor G. Kac , Daniele Valeri

We establish a novel connection between the minimal nilpotent orbit $\mathbb{O}_n$ in $\mathfrak{sl}_n$ and the minimal nilpotent orbit closure $\overline{\mathbf{O}}_n$ in $\mathfrak{so}_{2n+2}$, which differs from the shared-orbit…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Baohua Fu , Jie Liu

The second de Rham cohomology groups of nilpotent orbits in non-compact real forms of classical complex simple Lie algebras are explicitly computed. Furthermore, the first de Rham cohomology groups of nilpotent orbits in non-compact…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Indranil Biswas , Pralay Chatterjee , Chandan Maity

Relaxing first-class constraint conditions in the usual Drinfeld-Sokolov Hamiltonian reduction leads, after symmetry fixing, to realizations of W algebras expressed in terms of all the J-current components. General results are given for G a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Barbarin , E. Ragoucy , P. Sorba

We give a criterion for the Kostant-Kirillov form on an adjoint orbit in a real semisimple Lie group to be exact. We explicitly compute the second cohomology of all the nilpotent adjoint orbits in every complex simple Lie algebras.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-28 Indranil Biswas , Pralay Chatterjee

Recently, it has been shown how to perform the quantum hamiltonian reduction in the case of general $sl(2)$ embeddings into Lie (super)algebras, and in the case of general $osp(1|2)$ embeddings into Lie superalgebras. In another development…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 J. O. Madsen , E. Ragoucy

The existence of closed orbits of real algebraic groups on real algebraic varieties is established. As an application, it is shown that if G is a real reductive linear group with Iwasawa decomposition G= KAN, then every unipotent subgroup…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-06 Hassan Azad , Indranil Biswas

An elementary proof is given for the existence of infinite dimensional abelian subalgebras in quantum W-algebras. In suitable realizations these subalgebras define the conserved charges of various quantum integrable systems. We consider all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 M. R. Niedermaier

We study the quantum Hamiltonian reduction for affine superalgebras in the twisted case. This leads to a general representation theory of all superconformal algebras, including the twisted ones (like the Ramond algebra). In particular, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Victor G. Kac , Minoru Wakimoto

In this paper we study finite W-algebras for basic classical superalgebras and Q(n) associated to the regular even nilpotent coadjoint orbits. We prove that this algebra satisfies the Amitsur-Levitzki identity and therefore all its…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Elena Poletaeva , Vera Serganova

A class of classical affine W-algebras are shown to be isomorphic as differential algebras to the coordinate rings of double coset spaces of certain prounipotent proalgebraic groups. As an application, integrable Hamiltonian hierarchies…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Shigenori Nakatsuka

We derive explicit formulas for lambda-brackets of the affine classical W-algebras attached to the minimal and short nilpotent elements of any simple Lie algebra g. This is used to compute explicitly the first non-trivial PDE of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-18 Alberto De Sole , Victor G. Kac , Daniele Valeri

We study the quantum finite W-algebras W(gl_N,f), associated to the Lie algebra gl_N, and its arbitrary nilpotent element f. We construct for such an algebra an r_1 x r_1 matrix L(z) of Yangian type, where r_1 is the number of maximal parts…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Alberto De Sole , Victor G. Kac , Daniele Valeri

We perform an Hamiltonian reduction on a classical \cw(\cg, \ch) algebra, and prove that we get another \cw(\cg, \ch$'$) algebra, with $\ch\subset\ch'$. In the case $\cg=S\ell(n)$, the existence of a suitable gauge, called Generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 F. Delduc , L. Frappat , E. Ragoucy , P. Sorba

We show that the numbers of nilpotent coadjoint orbits in the dual of exceptional Lie algebra $G_2$ in characteristic $3$ and in the dual of exceptional Lie algebra $F_4$ in characteristic $2$ are finite. We determine the closure relation…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-25 Ting Xue

We classify all pairs (m,e), where m is a positive integer and e is a nilpotent element of a semisimple Lie algebra, which arise in the classification of simple rational W-algebras.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2014-01-17 A. G. Elashvili , V. G. Kac , E. B. Vinberg

We consider aspects of the relationship between nilpotent orbits in a semisimple real Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ and those in its complexification $\mathfrak{g}_{\mathbb{C}}$. In particular, we prove that two distinct real nilpotent orbits…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-29 Peter Crooks

We classify good Z-gradings of basic Lie superalgebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Good Z-gradings are used in quantum Hamiltonian reduction for affine Lie superalgebras, where they play a role in the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-28 Crystal Hoyt

By quantizing the generalized Drinfeld-Sokolov reduction scheme for arbitrary $sl_2$ embeddings we show that a large set $\cal W$ of quantum W algebras can be viewed as (BRST) cohomologies of affine Lie algebras. The set $\cal W$ contains…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Jan de Boer , Tjark Tjin

Consider the W-algebra $W$ attached to the smallest nilpotent orbit in a simple Lie algebra $\frak g$ over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. We show that if an analogue of the Gelfand-Kirillov conjecture holds for such a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Alexey Petukhov